Completely. But then again, I'm an easy sell on the whole 'spoiler' front - one, spoil me at will. Or not. I won't mind. I'm too in love with the process of telling a tale in a structured environment (like a one-hour drama, a two-hour movie, yadda) not to notice that someone has to get the story done in fifteen minutes or else. Most of the time, I already know how it ends. I just want to see how you get there. If I sit there at the end of anything saying 'I did not see that coming' - ? Yeah, that.
Then again, I also learned to take my coffee black almost from the start - because it was too much work to tell anyone else how to doctor it to satisfaction with any success. Accidents and best intentions - gotta love 'em. Unless there is an allergy involved, it's a good practice to yield. More time to enjoy the good stuff of spending time sharing a hot beverage and conversation, sez I.
What I don't get is the seething malice people attribute to being robbed of a storyline they were leaked, alluded to, spoiled - chose the words - like there was some ownership or something.
I'm still angry about the way Quantum Leap ended, but it's because it was a lazy-ass dumb way, worst way ever way to do it. (And the one I feared they would take from the beginning.) Did I know about it ahead of time? Sure. People went dumpster-diving for that information. (Ew.) But to attribute malice to it? The what? I'm not entitled to have it my way, or the way I would have liked it. (And while I still daydream of the movie I'd love to write, the reality is it's not going to happen. That show closed not because it got bad, but because the family who created it broke apart ala fission and it's not coming back together again, ever.)
I do not believe ever that you would be that mean. (This is one of the reasons I love that pretty pretty brain of yours.) Your perspective and role is also very different from mine as the reader of the finished product, you demonstrate awareness of this and your responsibility to it. And I think you will do your very best to stick to doing exactly what you said you will do, outlined above.
If it doesn't immediately feel like it, should something slip? I can remember. You're not mean. And that kinda is that.
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Date: 2011-11-09 04:32 pm (UTC)Then again, I also learned to take my coffee black almost from the start - because it was too much work to tell anyone else how to doctor it to satisfaction with any success. Accidents and best intentions - gotta love 'em. Unless there is an allergy involved, it's a good practice to yield. More time to enjoy the good stuff of spending time sharing a hot beverage and conversation, sez I.
What I don't get is the seething malice people attribute to being robbed of a storyline they were leaked, alluded to, spoiled - chose the words - like there was some ownership or something.
I'm still angry about the way Quantum Leap ended, but it's because it was a lazy-ass dumb way, worst way ever way to do it. (And the one I feared they would take from the beginning.) Did I know about it ahead of time? Sure. People went dumpster-diving for that information. (Ew.) But to attribute malice to it? The what? I'm not entitled to have it my way, or the way I would have liked it. (And while I still daydream of the movie I'd love to write, the reality is it's not going to happen. That show closed not because it got bad, but because the family who created it broke apart ala fission and it's not coming back together again, ever.)
I do not believe ever that you would be that mean. (This is one of the reasons I love that pretty pretty brain of yours.) Your perspective and role is also very different from mine as the reader of the finished product, you demonstrate awareness of this and your responsibility to it. And I think you will do your very best to stick to doing exactly what you said you will do, outlined above.
If it doesn't immediately feel like it, should something slip? I can remember. You're not mean. And that kinda is that.